Katie Yoder is a contributing editor for Our Sunday Visitor.
When Neal McDonough was first asked to play the devil in a new movie, he turned it down. “I can’t play Lucifer,” the 57-year-old actor, a Catholic, remembered saying. “That’s just too dark.” McDonough, who has starred in movies from “Minority Report”
Dr. John Bruchalski still remembers one of the most painful things from when he once performed abortions: ending the lives of babies with a prenatal diagnosis. Today, his practice accompanies pregnant women who choose life for their babies -- no matter how
This year, actor and comedian Rob Schneider is celebrating his first Christmas as a Catholic. “I think the reason the Catholic Church works for me is it’s closest to the actual words of Jesus Christ,” the 60-year-old told Our Sunday Visitor. Schneider
For the first time, first-class relics of the Blessed Ulma family — a Polish Catholic family murdered by the Nazis for secretly sheltering Jews during the Second World War — are coming to the United States. Catholics are invited to venerate the
As a new year begins, Catholic leaders, speakers and authors are recommending resolutions for Catholics to consider in 2024. Many of their suggestions overlapped, and each prioritized the same thing: Drawing closer to God. The Catholics that spoke with Our Sunday Visitor
An experienced exorcist is responding to a recent Cosmopolitan magazine story and social media post detailing a “satanic abortion ceremony.” “In previous eras, those who practiced evil kept to the shadows and remained hidden,” Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, research associate professor of practice
This Advent, pray with the Ascension app, a new Bible and Catechism app from Catholic publisher Ascension. It features two podcasts by Father Mike Schmitz (produced by Ascension) along with the full text of the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic
Award-winning Disney and Broadway star Lea Salonga is revealing that her Catholic past informs her approach to Christmas ahead of her performance in a PBS-televised holiday program. “As someone that grew up Catholic, I was raised to believe that Christmas was a
"If we want revival for the American church, it must start with you and me," Kris Frank, chief mission officer for the National Eucharistic Congress, told OSV News of their Spark Series, a prayer series that anyone can join. "As St. Augustine
As rector of America’s first cathedral, Father Brendan Fitzgerald can’t wait to host an upcoming performance of perhaps the most famous oratorio ever composed: George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah.” “My hope is that somehow, someway, to host the ‘Messiah’ at the Baltimore Basilica